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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
The current Rock is but a mere shadow of the original, having been split in two at one point and chipped away by souvenir hunters before it was placed in a protected location around 1880. It now resides at the bottom of a Roman-styled portico in Plymouth Harbor which was constructed in 1920 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival. |
The Roman portico (right), seen from the shore:
The big rock in question:
Yes, it's really,
really BIG:
Quote:
Originally Posted by risingstar3110
In anime with real ancient characters Horo (in Spice& Wolf) or Gekka (Kyouran Kazoku Nikki), the character often end their sentence with "ja" or "ya".. which is different with most of the Japanese structure end that i know of
Is that a really formal/royal way to speak or something?
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I don't know about the latter character, but Horo apparently
uses elements of an Edo-era dialect used by courtesans (
oiran). It may or may not have been influenced by
Kansai dialect, because both forms sound similar to my foreign ears. I'm basing that on the Kyoto-courtesan dialogue that appeared in
Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen, which had a curiously pleasant, coquettish lilt.